Role and Responsibilities of a software Project Manager

A software project manager is the most important person inside a team who takes the overall responsibilities to manage the software projects and play an important role in the successful completion of the projects. A project manager has to face many difficult situations to accomplish these works. In fact, the job responsibilities of a project manager range from invisible activities like building up team morale to highly visible customer presentations. Most of the managers take responsibility for writing the project proposal, project cost estimation, scheduling, project staffing, software process tailoring, project monitoring and control, software configuration management, risk management, managerial report writing and presentation and interfacing with clients. 

The task of a project manager are classified into two major types:

Quantum Computing Explained Simply And How Actually Quantum Computers Work

“If quantum computing hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet”

Today’s smartphone have same ability as of military computer from 50 years with the size of an entire room. However, even after making exceptional steps in classical computers and technology since the arrival of quantum computers there are many problems that the classical computers are not been able to solev. Many geeks accept that quantum computers are the answer.


Reference:
https://medium.com/@techindustan/quantum-computing-explained-simply-and-how-actually-quantum-computers-work-c6e0667f3468

Why Leaders Should Make Love The Top Priority

I recently watched an excellent TED talk, which I think you’ll love, too. It’s about why the best leaders make loving employees a higher priority than profit.

Since the talk is only 9 minutes long, and the topic is an important, yet nuanced one, I have interviewed the speaker, Matt Tenney, to give you a deeper exploration of the topic. After you watch the video of Matt’s talk, I think you’ll enjoy my interview with him, which is below.

Estimating Software Tasks

Let developers estimate their own work
Any system where management writes a schedule and hands it off to programmers is doomed to fail. Only the programmer who is going to do the work can figure out what steps they will need to take to implement that feature. And only the programmer can estimate how long each one will take.

Design first, and in detail
Attempting to estimate a feature before you’ve figured out how the feature is going to work, in detail, can’t possibly work, even if you “multiply your best guess by three,” because your “best guess” is based on very little in the way of facts. The nature of software development is that things which seem simple are often surprisingly complicated when you think about all the details. For example, when you think about creating a registration and logon system, you might forget that you’re going to need a way to prevent passwords that are the same as the user name, and a way to deal with forgotten passwords, and a way for people to unregister, and so on. Until you try to figure out the design of all these things, you have no basis for an estimate at all.

How to Get Better at Estimating Software Development Time

Being able to accurately estimate the time required to develop a given product or feature is a crucial skill for every developer and one that must be honed over time through deliberation and effort. As an industry, we are constantly plagued with software overruns. One study estimates that as many as 66% of all enterprise software projects have cost and effort overruns.

Here are 9 signs it's time to quit your job

Here are 9 signs it's time to quit your job
Moving on. Read more: http://wef.ch/2eVBVsw
Posted by Video - World Economic Forum on Tuesday, 5 September 2017

Never too old to code: Meet Japan's 82-year-old app-maker

When 82-year-old Masako Wakamiya first began working she still used an abacus for maths -- today she is one of the world's oldest iPhone app developers, a trailblazer in making smartphones accessible for the elderly.



Reference: AFP news agency

Premature scaling will kill your Start-up

Premature scaling means scaling your team, customer acquisition strategies or over building the product without getting to product/market fit first.

Startup Genome in a report published in 2011 identified premature scaling as the number one cause of startup failure.

The report states that most start-ups scale by keeping the 5 core dimensions of a start-up Customer, Product, Team, Business Model and Financials in balance and they need to master the chaos of getting each of these 5 dimensions to move in time and in tune with others. Based on StartupGenome’s analysis of about 3200 high growth internet startups approximately 70% of the startups in their data set scaled prematurely along some dimension and died as a result.

The startups in their data set were divided into 2 categories: Consistent and Inconsistent. Consistent startups were those who kept the customer dimension, the primary indicator of progress in a startup, in tune with product, team, financials and business model while inconsistent startups had one or more of these dimensions far ahead or far behind the customer dimension. Here are examples of inconsistency across all dimensions:

(Source: Startup Genome Report Extra on Premature Scaling)

With the ideas of Premature Scaling, Consistent and Inconsistent Start-ups clear in our mind let us proceed to understand why start-ups prematurely scale and how as a start-up founder you can avoid falling into this trap.

Reasons why start-ups scale prematurely and how it can be avoided:

1. One of the first reactions for most start-ups after raising a funding or closing a big customer (in case of B2B) is hiring more people. Founders also try to justify raising a round by hiring more specialists in their start-ups. This leads to hiring of too many people too early. The solution is to hire only if there is a serious need and making sure each new hire raises the bar for future hires.
2. Most VCs look down upon so called ‘lifestyle businesses’. The easiest way to signal your intent to conquer the world is by splashing your newly raised money. Resist the urge to raise money till you reach product market fit.
3. Most start-ups raise a new round and agree on a bunch of metrics to be hit in the next 18 months. Growth is the only thing which matters in today’s hyper competitive funding environment and one needs to grow fast or face the prospect of the much dreaded down round (few months down the line). To drive this growth founders try to throw more MBA folks at it. More people (especially having one more level of hierarchy) does not mean more output.
4. It is easy to fake growth as well as traction nowadays. I had written earlier about how most start-ups today are chasing vanity metrics. For them growth means pumping money on acquisition channels. In case you are not focusing on retention and reducing churn you will lost 80% of your users in the first few weeks.
5. Founders equate start-up culture with fancy offices and employee perks. Culture is much more than that. Bhavin Turakhia wrote a post on how one can think beyond TT tables to create a culture of mutual respect and a place where employees can give their 100% every day.
6. PR stories do not equate success. It is hard not to think of yourself as the next big thing when you have the attention of the press (and paid PR posts never hurt). Losing focus will lead you to chase the next shiny product feature, hire (which will get you more press) and you will stop caring about the only dimension which matters the most — your own customers.
7. Too many product features do not breed customer loyalty. But that is what most start-ups seem to be doing — mindlessly adding new shiny features. Coupons/discounts will help you increase your GMV (another vanity metric) but do nothing to improve retention. Ruthless prioritisation is the key here. Focus on the problem you were trying to solve with your product. Talk to your customers. Figure out the main causes for churn and fix them.

Reference: https://hackernoon.com/premature-scaling-will-kill-your-start-up-82587dabc47e 

When You Embrace The Change, You Have A Chance

(Picture of HAN, founder & GM, stepped down and resigned from the company)

Han resigned from the Founder & General Manager of the Company. 
Below is his full letter to staffs:

Dear Team, 

For the last eight years my life has always been thinking about businesses which i managed and sacrificed all the dreams for the vision that company wants to get reached. Recent events have brought home for me that honesty is more important than money, and that I need to make such decision in another way to create new chapter in my life.

The ultimate responsibility, for what we’ve gotten here I have trained, documented and guided to new leadership team smoothly. There is of course much to be proud of however there are so many things to improve. For online e-commerce business and earlier new established services & products to succeed there is nothing more greater than dedicating your time build out the strongest leadership management and trust the mission, vision that you agreed with shareholders together.  

During my absent from the company, I do believe that new leadership team will be running the businesses successfully. I will be available as needed for at anytime you’ve got the questions in order to move operation forward swiftly. 

I feel tragically losing my loved children that we all have taken care of them for almost 10 years so far. Due to the tough situation for me right now and I have to properly say my “GOODBYES” to all of you.

Have a good luck,
Han
(31 July 2017)

Dream Never Come

It's time to make a dream come true! 

That dream is to make people can obtain benefits equally in the open marketplace.

I have had a very diverse experiences in Innovation of Technology Industry I have shared my knowledge, ideas to thousand of students, friends and companies so far. It's now over 10 years already I've still been in such working environment and It's the age of changing I'm older enough to deeply think of how to invent something new by using own yearlong entrepreneurship.

I do believe that in order to make a dream come true is very hard and impossible as long as we have affordable investment (much money). When we think of money it makes us so headache and suck anyway.

If we start up from small thing, we have a proper brainstorming together and we have a strong teamwork then we might not think of money too much, but think about ideas, new innovation of technology about what society really needs in the present and future.

Changing life from working at private company to create own small business surely requires encouragement, motivation from people around especially family and friends. I have been supported by my wife she want to have small business which initiate by my experience & leadership because she do believes in mine. Small business is no need big money but a confident stakeholders.

To get bigger, we must start from small thing!

Build confident first before selling the service!

Build value first before recovering the expenses!

However, Dream never come!!!

Problems with OWC11 interop publishing to development server

Solution:
Yes, you can do this by using start->run type c:\windows\assembly\gac  do not try to browse to it you cannot get there. hit Enter.
Next copy the folder called  Microsoft.Office.Interop.Owc11 to a location that you can reach from the server.  Log on to the server and then use the start->Run type c:\windows\assembly\gac once there copy the folder into it.  This should fix the problem.

Link: https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/21691122/Problems-with-OWC11-interop-publishing-to-development-server.html

If you still have a problem with Oledb connection please download "AccessDatabaseEngine_X64 .EXE" and install one more then it will be solved.

Human Mindset Really Different

I believe that each people absolutely  have different mindset from one to another.

One thing, they need the same is reputation. Reputation is reflected to people's value.

People live around the world have their personal value, of course. So we need to respect the value as a human, share respectful behavior to each other rather than using bad words, or blame them without a reason.

When we respect, defend them or give them a warm while they are our employees then we will become a good leader as always.

Thank everyone for having a confident on me, I will stand by you in all circumstance.

Changes to Improve A Lot of Works

Life is so short,  we don't know when the world lose us!
So please keep doing the best thing you're wanna to do now!

Every of kind, morality and honesty people mostly get more pressure at workplace environment while that company is less of policy & rules' respect.

Those kind people, they like to help whom around them all the time as needed. Sometime they tell about the technique how to do, and sometime they help to implement tasks directly instead.

When we have got a such kind mind in our heart and we often pity people around us every time like this, we will return back the most pressure in life such as no time enough for community meetup, family, friends and personal relax at all.

For me, as experiences I like to help a lot of friends, employees or other people who ask for helps from me. I love to teach them, I love to help them and frequently those people always get motivation from me, of course.

I've worked for several organization, local & international companies over 10 years until now, I manage many companies in the same time, but let's keep the difficult works at apart of my heart and keep slowly resolving it. Customers & Investors are the most challenge for me because they want the easier & the best thing done smoothly to regenerate as much as money as they want.

My challenge is when going to have a meeting with customers & investors and listen to their comments and feedback. I'm so shy of them when I cannot complete projects on time as scheduled.

There are some projects are very sensitive which we cannot assign the team to handle directly, so only us alone to groom it and fix accordingly.

I always tell myself that "We're a human, we were born to help to resolve the problems, so please don't get bored with those.". This sentence is keeping motivation for me all the time and thank to whom that got experience as me.

Thank you,

Effective of Good Leadership

Across several years long of leadership experiences, I have been recognized to be a good brother, good leader and respectful manager of everybody, in subordinates' eyes.

I always give a warm support, a special assistant while they've got serious problems. I provide the honesty love, the true motivation which all these make them very confident on mine.

Thank you so much everyone for all the time appreciation and treat me as your brother. I do love you guys.

Below is  a message from staff:

Regards,

Drupal 7: Forbidden error for files in the files directory

[RESOLVED]
"Access forbidden!
You don't have permission to access the requested object. It is either read-protected or not readable by the server.
If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster. "


[SOLUTION]
The problems, however, start when the browser is trying to access these files.
Problem #1. The FollowSymLinks option causes me an Internal Server Error because my hosting provider has disabled use of this directive. In my environment I know I can safely comment this line out just like I did in the main .htaccess file in the Drupal installation directory. This is because the FollowSymLinksIfOwnerMatch is enabled instead. One down, one to go.

Problem #2. The content of the .htaccess file is now effectively as follows:

SetHandler Drupal_Security_Do_Not_Remove_See_SA_2006_006
Options None

 

With this configuration I get rid of the Internal Server error. But instead, I now get a HTTP 403 forbidden error when the browser is requesting files that are in the files directory.
If I comment out Options None, I can access the files as intended. This configuration change is, however, something that I am not going to do unless I know for sure that Apache is configured safely - I don't want to open my site for remote arbitrary code execution.

Reference: https://www.drupal.org/node/813196

Only enable RequiredFieldValidator when parent element is visible?

I agree that a custom validator would be best, but if you do need to do it on the client side, you can use the ValidatorEnable function.

ValidatorEnable(document.getElementById("<%= RequiredFieldValidator.ClientID %>"), false);

(Note that I have never actually tried this myself, but I have heard of it successfully being used to disable validators on the client side.)

Solution: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15254210/only-enable-requiredfieldvalidator-when-parent-element-is-visible

Appreciate What You Have Achieved

Team Meeting on 29 June 2015
Advice to my colleagues.

1. To make company growth and have a proper management, you have to set up 4 main systems to use in your Company effectively:

• Manage HR management process 
• Manage Administration process
• Manage Sale/Purchase process
• Manage Accounting process

All of these 4 points are relating with each other closely. They are in one set together. If there is any points not works then it will affect to all operations. So they 4 must work by each department effectively.

When it works smoothly then I think that every projects, tasks will be worked out very fast and easier. The input and output will never be interrupted anymore. Our staffs also have confident and motivation to do their works comfortably. 

2. Team, do you know?

You must value products which you are developing, when you value it then the market will offer you very expensive price after completed. 

If you do it without confident or you do it without value, then market will offer you the cheapest price after ended.

Finally I believe strongly that you all will commit to complete our applications with the best quality and usable.

Thanks,

Real Experts Cannot Work Under Pressure Management Without Leadership Awareness

កុំចាំបុគ្គលិកដែលមានសក្តានុពលសម្រេចចិត្តចាកចេញពីអ្នក ទើបអ្នកឃាត់ គួរតែមានយុទ្ឋសាស្រ្តអោយល្អជាងនេះ ឬលឿនជាងទើបវាប្រសើរ។

Don't wait until the outstanding employees place a resignation letter and leave from you then you just feel to persuade them. But you should have a good strategy, respect principles and have a proper management in your company.

How to become a "WINNER"

Message to my colleagues on 22nd June 2015

Team, Do you know?

On behalf of manager of the company, I would express that I also feel very regret to work with such dumb customers.

(1).Very slow decision making, (2).no proper management, (3).no collaboration, (4).no active, (5). Selfish (6). very aggressive; (7). and no adaptation; those are named "Idiot Customers".

To become a "winner" it is not easy but very tough to try; it needs more patient and higher commitment.

To cross the tough route and to beat "idiot people", I still need your try all the best.

Even though we've got "Game Over" often almost of the time, but please try to play it again & again. We will win it shortly, I believe.

Keep your motivation alive, team!!!

Best Regards,
H@n

Customer is a boss

19 May 2015 at 6:12PM

I told my e-commerce teamwork that please try all your best. I believe your ability and I'd like to express my thank to you all for commitment to make our online business happens in the country.

You guys must remember one sentence as below:
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"The most important of business is satisfying customer. Even today we get nothing but tomorrow we'll make million$"
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ChanH@n